I have a feeling that Putin and Trump have a great deal of common ground. They both want to halt the march of Islam into Europe. They will work together to make the Saudis and the Iranians pay for the settling of refugees in various places about the Levant.
This drives the left in America crazy to no end.
It made no sense whatsoever that we were ratcheting up conflict with Russia the way we were. The mess in Syria was as much our doing as anything else and we had no strategic interest whatsoever in removing Assad (or Qaddafi) from power. Russia blocking the Saudis from developing their pipeline and exporting Sharia by keeping Assad didn’t harm our strategic position...and actually helps in the fight against terrorism - Saudi Arabia is the primary source of Jihad, certainly Syria has never been that.
And frankly, Ukraine is in the Russian sphere of influence and always will be. We should not have a major dog in that fight. Ukraine is a chit in the European battle and we should not base our relationship with Russia on some newfound loyalty to Ukraine. We will have better impact anyway by having good relations with Russia than by having low-grade conflict with them.
Much better for us to engage positively with Russia and work with them to create greater ties and a more lucrative and positive relationship. The benefits of that far exceed any downside from a more prosperous and engaged Russian nation.
The mohammadan ambition to spread this cult over the entire planet has its origin in the salafist tradition avowed by the saud/wahab clans, thus, the parasitic vermin that are its followers should rightfully be returned to whence it came.
Saudi Arabia. Let them learn to share their wealth.